Im running RGB ontop & 5-6k on the sides of my baby veg. & they like it, i like the way they grow with burple & white. Veg & flower. 30-40% good burple/60-70% white did real nice in flower & the reverse does real nice in veg for me.
I loved my T-5's. Outstanding growth & health is easily obtained. But after seeing 100w replace 464w of t-5, i just couldn't do it anymore. In veg, the led strips (even in 58-6k) give me just as healthy & fast growing plants as the floros did. Non of the issues some have using cobs or high density leds in veg. Which i do not do unless highly dimmed & diffusued & supplemented.
Add a lil burple to that & its like MH growth with more root action.
I can only grow 12 too & try to make the best of it. Big plants are not exactly optimal use of the space when you have low ceilings Like me.
Those burple t-5 leds you'r looking at would be perfect to run one on each side of x2 boards (with spread diodes or a diffussion cover if densely laid diodes on the boards).
BTW, The $15-22 , cheep led T-5 or 8 replacements work nice on veg.
Sorta like this as to top & sides.
Led cut electrical use down so much & prices went up equally as much so electrical cost its almost even to when i started with HPS/MH & Floros some 7 or 8 yrs ago.
These are 7-10 days outta the cloner.
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